A 70-year-old Christian woman has been stripped naked, beaten and paraded through the streets by a mob of around 300 Muslim men in a village in southern Egypt.

The mob also burned down seven homes belonging to Christian families, according to an unusually outspoken statement issued by the local Orthodox Coptic church, after rumours circulated in the village that a Christian man was having a relationship with a Muslim woman.

The violence started at around 8pm on 20 May, and the local diocese said it was two hours before police responded, by which point the mob had already dispersed.

The woman who was stripped naked was reported to be the mother of the man involved in the rumoured affair. She has since met with church leaders, the Diocese of Minya and Abu Qirqas said.

The violence is representative of the tensions between the two religions in the province south of Cairo, where extra-marital affairs between Muslims and Christians are strictly taboo.

But it appears the Coptic church has finally had enough of what they say is unfair treatment from the authorities over such cases. Christians only make up around 10 per cent of Egypt’s population, the majority being Muslim.Credit to The Independent.co.uk

This imagery of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory from May 17-19, 2016, shows a giant dark area on the star's upper half, known as a coronal hole.

Coronal holes are low-density regions of the sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona. Because they contain little solar material, they have lower temperatures and thus appear much darker than their surroundings. Coronal holes are visible in certain types of extreme ultraviolet light, which is typically invisible to our eyes, but is colorized here in purple for easy viewing.

NASA has revealed that a massive hole, measuring more than ten per cent of the Sun's surface area, has opened up on our star.

Petrus Romanus, Albert Pike, the Islamic State, the Final Roman Emperor, and Armageddon

Originally I had planned to follow PART 4 of this short online series with more samples of the PREDICTIONS I make in the upcoming book The Final Roman Emperor. But I have decided to leap forward today given that the book promo starts in just a few days from now and there are several more intriguing prospects we deal with in Emperor that people need to be aware of including how, last summer, Pope Francis expressed his belief that a fragmentary world war has already started: “Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.”[i] In another press conference, he said, “Today we are in a world at war, everywhere.”[ii] Of course, many prophecy watchers were intrigued because a Third World War is assumed to culminate with Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. Joseph De Courcey, editor of Intelligence Brief, wrote:

If something is not done to reverse these current developments, the result is likely to be a final, catastrophic was between the Arabs and the Jews, possibly pitting superpower against superpower and possibly including nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.[iii]

Lyndon H. LaRouche wrote in 1992, “You might say that World War III has already begun. We have a spreading war in the Balkans; we have a war in Transcaucuses, involving the Turkish population against the Armenians, and the Georgians against the Abkhazians, and so forth and so on; we have a war in Central Asia. We can say, in general, World War III is spreading rapidly in the form of these local wars. It’s like a forest fire, threatening to engulf whole continents, and perhaps the world as a whole.”[iv] LaRouche connected all of this to the intentional design for world government by Scottish Rite Freemason Albert Pike in the same end-noted speech.

The trend of recent references to World War Three have captivated readers familiar with Pike, who allegedly wrote a letter to Giuseppe Mazzini dated August 15, 1871, proposing a diabolic strategy involving three world wars as a means of creating a one world order. The source that originally popularized the letter was Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr, a former intelligence officer in the Royal Canadian Navy. According to Carr:

Pike’s plan was as simple as it has proved effective. He required that Communism, Naziism, Political Zionism, and other International movements be organized and used to foment the three global wars and three major revolutions. The First World War was to be fought so as to enable the Illuminati to overthrow the powers of the Tzars in Russia and turn that country into the stronghold of Atheistic-Communism. The differences stirred up by agentur of the Illuminati between the British and German Empires were to be used to foment this war. After the war ended, Communism was to be built up and used to destroy other governments and weaken religions.

World War Two was to be fomented by using the differences between Fascists and Political Zionists. This war was to be fought so that Naziism would be destroyed and the power of Political Zionism increased so that the sovereign state of Israel could be established in Palestine. During World War Two, International Communism was to be built up until it equalled in strength that of united Christendom. At this point it was to be contained and kept in check until required for the final social cataclysm. Can any informed person deny Roosevelt and Churchill did not put this policy into effect?

World War Three is to be fomented by using the differences the agentur of the Illuminati stir up between Political Zionists and the leaders of the Moslem world. The war is to be directed in such a manner that Islam (the Arab World including Mohammedanism) and Political Zionism (including the State of Israel) will destroy themselves while at the same time the remaining nations, once more divided against each other on this issue, will be forced to fight themselves into a state of complete exhaustion physically, mentally, spiritually and economically. Can any unbiased and reasoning person deny that the intrigue now going on in the Near, Middle, and Far East isn’t designed to accomplish this devilish purpose? (Emphasis added)[v]

Carr claimed he was shown the letter by Cardinal Rodriguez of Santiago, Chile, who wrote about the letter, documented to be published prior to the Second World War, in his book The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled (1925).

Authentic or not, the letter had been published long enough before the events, not to be an invention accommodated post factum. Its publication is catalogued in the British Museum of London and the plan attributed to Pike is also in part in Le Palladisme Of Margiotta, p. 186 published in 1895. It is a plan to destroy Catholicism, to throw the Pope out of Italy and force him to seek refuge in Russia; and then, when the autocratic empire had become the citadel of Papal Christianity, “we,” continues the author of the letter, “shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.[vi]

Even the existence of the Pike-to-Mazzini letter is controversial, mostly due to Carr’s popular style but poor scholarship; he didn’t document the source material carefully enough, and the letter’s veracity (and possible sources) will be discussed later. Even so, if the alleged letter (or a similar document) so accurately described even one of the first two world wars before it occurred and, while remaining skeptical, everyone must acknowledge that Cardinal Rodriguez’ book discussing this plot by Pike was in print decades before the second world war began,[vii] one must take its prediction of a Third and final World War pitting the West, and especially Israel, against the Muslim world, very seriously…that is especially, if one maintains a supernatural worldview.

All three world wars were allegedly engineered with one goal in mind: a one-world government ostensibly ruled by Scottish Rite Freemasons and their luciferian cronies. If there is any truth to it all, we believe this plan describes the coming kingdom of Antichrist and battle of Armageddon. While a few competent debunkings of the “letter to Mazzini” exist on the Internet, this seems more indicative of pro-Rome tricksters feeding Carr information.[viii] Overall, the “Three World War” plan seems plausible and does have supporting evidence. The record of history falls very neatly in place. The conflict with the Islamic world is obviously ongoing. Carr wasn’t wrong, but likely fell for a Jesuit prank that ironically (diabolically) came true. The letter will probably never see the light of day…that is, if it ever did exist.

Carr also wrote that Satan has his “agentur within the hierarchy of Roman Catholicism just as they had Judas amongst Christ’s own apostles.”[ix] Of course, we dealt with this very real satanic group that the former Jesuit scholar, Malachi Martin, dubbed the “Roman Phalanx” in our books Petrus Romanus and Exo-Vaticana and pointed to evidence suggesting Benedict XVI was under pressure to resign in order to make way for a “Final Pope” who had been dedicated since youth to Satan for his purposes. As we go to press, a controversial biography of Belgian cardinal Godfried Danneels and Catholic journalist Edward Pentin confirms we were on the right track:

At the launch of the book in Brussels this week, the cardinal said he was part of a secret club of cardinals opposed to Pope Benedict XVI.

He called it a “mafia” club that bore the name of St. Gallen. The group wanted a drastic reform of the Church, to make it “much more modern”, and for Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to head it. The group, which also comprised Cardinal Walter Kasper and the late Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, has been documented in Austen Ivereigh’s biography of Pope Francis, The Great Reformer.[x]

Thus, we have the identities of three high-ranking churchmen: Danneels, Kasper, and Martini, the former shamelessly admitting to participating in the sedition, and capitalize on the conspiracy, as a means of promoting his “cloak and dagger” style Vatican-insider “tell-all” autobiography. In other words, he is “cashing in” by bragging about what a joke Unam Sanctum and the utter ridiculousness of a human being the vicarious Christ, as if any man but Jesus can assume His role. It shows the utter contempt these cardinals have for the Peterine doctrine of apostolic succession, because they so easily conspire but even portray the unmitigated gall to brag about forcing Pope Benedict to retire in favor of a more progressive choice.

Bergoglio’s papal namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, warned shortly before he died that seven prophetic travails centering on a pope who is labeled a destroyer:

The time is fast approaching in which there will be great trials and afflictions; perplexities and dissensions, both spiritual and temporal, will abound; the charity of many will grow cold, and the malice of the wicked will increase.

The devils will have unusual power, the immaculate purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that there will be very few Christians who will obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with loyal hearts and perfect charity. At the time of this tribulation a man, not canonically elected, will be raised to the Pontificate, who, by his cunning, will endeavor to draw many into error and death. [The recent anti-Benedict conspiracy revelation by Belgian Cardinal Danneels arguably qualify Pope Francis as one not canonically elected.[xi]]

Then scandals will be multiplied, our Order will be divided, and many others will be entirely destroyed, because they will consent to error instead of opposing it.

There will be such diversity of opinions and schisms among the people, the religious and the clergy, that, except those days were shortened, according to the words of the Gospel, even the elect would be led into error, were they not specially guided, amid such great confusion, by the immense mercy of God.

Then our Rule and manner of life will be violently opposed by some, and terrible trials will come upon us. Those who are found faithful will receive the crown of life; but woe to those who, trusting solely in their Order, shall fall into tepidity, for they will not be able to support the temptations permitted for the proving of the elect.

Those who preserve in their fervor and adhere to virtue with love and zeal for the truth, will suffer injuries and, persecutions as rebels and schismatics; for their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say they are rendering a great service to God by destroying such pestilent men from the face of the earth. but the Lord will be the refuge of the afflicted, and will save all who trust in Him. And in order to be like their Head, [Christ] these, the elect, will act with confidence, and by their death will purchase for themselves eternal life; choosing to obey God rather than man, they will fear nothing, and they will prefer to perish rather than consent to falsehood and perfidy.

Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it under foot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days JESUS CHRIST WILL SEND THEM NOT A TRUE PASTOR, BUT A DESTROYER.[xii]

Recall that Malachi Martin warned us about a cabal of high-ranking Jesuits, whose goal was to transform the papacy into an instrument of the devil, in our previous work Petrus Romanus. We also wrote about a secret parallel enthronement ceremony in Rome and Charleston, South Carolina (interestingly, also connected to Albert Pike):

Martin stated publicly on more than one occasion that this enthronement of Lucifer in Rome was based on fact, and that to facilitate the black magic, a parallel ceremony was conducted simultaneously in the United States in Charleston, South Carolina. The reason this location was selected has remained obscure to many, but given what Malachi said about the Masonic connection, it makes sense that South Carolina was chosen: It is the site of the first Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry in the United States, called “the Mother Lodge of the World,” where in 1859, champion of luciferian dogma for the Masonic-Illuminatus, Albert Pike became Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, where he served the Order of the Quest until his death in Washington DC on April 2, 1892. Pike was known as a Satanist in his adopted state of Arkansas and loved to sit naked in the woods astride a phallic throne while participating for days in drunkenness and debauchery. Today, his body is proudly entombed at the House of the Temple, headquarters of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry in Washington DC.[xiii]

If Malachi Martin, a former Jesuit and advisor to three popes, was correct, then that satanic influence, only hinted at by Carr, has now been exposed as having completely overtaken the Vatican and the papacy. The purpose of the Charleston, South Carolina, ritual was described by Martin in no uncertain terms. “No longer was the Petrine Office [the papacy] to be an instrument of the “Nameless Weakling” [Jesus]. It was to be fashioned into a willing instrument of the Prince, and a living model for “the New Age of Man.”[xiv] This Jesuit luciferianism seems preternaturally similar to the words of Albert Pike.

Pike is infamous as the author of Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in which he wrote concerning the book of Revelation:

Seven trumpets to sound, and Seven cups to empty. The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth Degree, the Apothesis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer. LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not![xv]

Recalling Martin’s thesis in his first nonfiction best seller, The Jesuits: “A state of war exists between the papacy and The Religious Order of the Jesuits—the Society of Jesus, to give the order its official name. That war signals the most lethal change to take place within the ranks of professional Roman clergy over the last thousand years.”[xvi] With Pope Francis as the first sitting Jesuit Pope, it seems the diabolic champion of Martin’s theological/ideological war is now obvious. With horns like a lamb, Pope Francis allowed Islamic Prayer services to be conducted in the Vatican, while meeting “Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Vatican City, a gathering designed to pray for Middle Eastern peace.”[xvii] Following the overt denial of Jesus as the Christ (Islamic prayer) being officially condoned, Pope Francis called Mahmoud Abbas, “an angel of peace.”[xviii] It’s a smack to the face of the families who know Abbas was instrumental in the terrorist plot that killed Olympic athletes in Munich. But his meeting this week with the grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque at the Vatican seems literally torn from the ancient prophecy of The Final Roman Emperor!

Abbas is a terrorist who proudly wrote his doctoral dissertation on the idea the Zionists collaborated with the Nazis and the Holocaust killed less than one million Jews. We are not joking; apparently, he actually believes it. The thrust of the thesis is that the Holocaust was a Zionist ruse to take Palestine from the Arabs.[xix] Abbas still argues that the Zionists and Nazis collaborated. In 2013 he offered a dare, “I challenge anyone to deny the relationship between Zionism and Nazism before World War II.”[xx] We must refer our present readers to chapter 15, “The Woman Clothed with the Sun and the Red Dragon,” and chapter 16, “The Burdensome Stone” of our book Petrus Romanus for essential background. Abbas claims the UN (1948) and eventually the Vatican’s (1992) “recognition of a Palestine state is a ploy to bounce it into virtual existence by getting the world to agree it exists. The sole reason it does not in reality exist is that, resting on a wholesale denial of Jewish history in the land, the purpose of such a state is to create the platform for a devastating war on Israel.”[xxi] At best he is a revisionist, but Abbas is not likely that innocent. Labeled by Newsweek as “the most famous rabbi in America,” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote:

Abbas’s career as a merchant of death rather than an angel of peace stretches all the way back to the early 1970s. According to Abu Daoud, the Mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre that left 11 Israeli athletes murdered, Abbas funded the operation. And when Abu Daoud died in 2010, Abbas wrote a letter of condolence to the infamous terrorist’s family saying “He is missed. He was one of the leading figures of Fatah and spent his life in resistance and sincere work as well as physical sacrifice for his people’s just causes.”[xxii]

Abbas is also guilty of stealing from the people he claims to represent. At a House subcommittee hearing on the Middle East entitled “Chronic Kleptocracy: Corruption within the Palestinian Political Establishment,”[xxiii] committee chairman, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), claimed that Mahmoud Abbas has used his position “to line his own pockets as well as those of his cohort of cronies, including his sons, Yasser and Tareq…allegedly receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in USAID contracts.”[xxiv] The deep-seated corruption of the Palestinian Authority is the principal reason that Palestinians continue to suffer economically. The so-called refugees are largely pawns in a chess match used by Israel’s Arab neighbors who will not accept them into their own lands.

This also explains why many traditionalist Catholics are today called Sedevacantists, a title representing their belief that the present occupant of the papacy is not a true pope, and that, for lack of a valid pope, the Papal See has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. The enthronement ceremony that Malachi Martin wrote about and Vatican II were the dawn of the final stage of apostasy about to reach its ultimate fruition.

A NEARLY NAKED COWBOY, THOUGH, IS AN ODD CHOICE FOR A WOMAN’S CONFERENCE THOUGH, DON’T YOU THINK?

“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”2 Timothy 3:5 (KJV)

Hillsong United has been on a roll lately, and all of it bad. For quite a few years now, we have been reporting classic Hillsong events to you like the gay worship leader, the ultra sleazy ‘Silent Night‘ mockery, complete with Roaring Twenties flappers in a nightclub setting, and the image of Baphomet laced into their women’s conference marketing. Now they have gone and kicked things up to whole low-vel.

ENTER THE NAKED COWBOY AT THE 2016 HILLSONG NYC WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

In a world saturated with sex and sexual images, the Church is supposed to be the one place where that is not allowed to enter. Not at Hillsong. Take a look at the following smartphone video of the closing night of the first-ever Hillsong Women’s Conference in NYC, it’s quite the eye-opener.

I guess the only logical choice to keep the scantily-dressed ‘cheerleaders’ company would be the Naked Cowboy. A nearly naked cowboy, though, is an odd choice for a woman’s conference though, don’t you think? But the pagan pageantry didn’t stop there, check this out:

Now where do you see Jesus in any of this slop? Answer, you don’t. Look at the stage, and what do you see? A naked cowboy, and Elvis impersonator, a bearded male Statue of Liberty, various humans wearing furry animal costumes, and for good measure they get everyone all jacked up waving the American flag and shouting “USA!, USA!, USA!” Can you tell the difference between this and a rock concert?

This is what passes for “church” in our Laodicean end times ‘christian’ gatherings. It looks more like John Bunyan’s word picture of the Godless ‘Vanity Fair’ so well illustrated in his classic ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress‘.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”Romans 12:1,2 (KJV)

Hillsong United and their various tentacles have made a mockery of Christianity and the Bible with worldly ‘shows’ like these. They should be ashamed of themselves, but sadly, they are quite proud of what they have accomplished. In the second video you hear ‘pastor’ Carl Lentz bragging about their ‘first ever Colour Conference in New York City’, all the while inciting the people into a Godless, sex-filled, rock and roll frenzy.

Thankfully, all this junk will be ‘left behind’ when the Blessed Hope finally clears the table. I can’t wait.

A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) states that the Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACS), which "coordinates the operational functions of the US' nuclear forces, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers, and tanker support aircrafts," functions, in part, on 40-year-old 8-inch floppy disks.

To use these discs it is necessary to maintain IBM Series 1 computers, which were first introduced in November 1976.

The presence of this archaic technology isn’t merely a case of America being behind the times, but is actually a tactic designed to protect some of the country’s most sensitive and potentially dangerous information.

In 2014 Maj. General Jack Weinstein told CBS’ 60 minutes that the US military uses floppy discs for the same reason.

"I'll tell you, those older systems provide us some — I will say huge — safety when it comes to some cyber issues that we currently have in the world," he said, explaining that storing information on outdated media instead of using online or local area networks helps protect it from hackers. "A few years ago we did a complete analysis of our entire network. Cyber engineers found out that the system is extremely safe and extremely secure in the way it's developed…we’re not up on the Internet."

There are some that feel that the security of outdated hardware and software isn’t worth the money it takes to maintain it. The GAO believes they are lowballing the $80 billion estimated spent on information technology last year, not counting the Pentagon and independent agencies like the CIA.

GAO information technology expert David Powner told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that "clearly, there are billions wasted."

The report also indicated that "replacement parts for the system are difficult to find because they are now obsolete," in reference to SACS, noting that SACS isn’t the only government agency that relies on legacy technology to store critical data.

Some Social Security systems currently function on programming called COBOL, which was first used in the 1950s and 1960s. According to GAO, "Most of the employees who developed these systems are ready to retire and the agency will lose their collective knowledge," the report said. "Training new employees to maintain the older systems takes a lot of time." Some of the functions of COBOL include calculating benefits and deciding eligibility.

Parts of the US Treasury’s master files, which contain taxpayer information, are about 56 years old and use the computer language.

Even some of the younger programs, like the 11-year-old Medicare Appeals System are having trouble keeping up with users or keeping pace with appeals.

Most of these agencies have said that they will update their systems, but there are very few hard dates for this expensive and time-intensive overhaul.

The report concluded that "Legacy federal IT investments are becoming obsolete.The federal government runs the risk of continuing to maintain investments that have outlived their effectiveness and are consuming resources that outweigh their benefits."

These concerns have also reached the halls of Congress. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) claims, "This is not a partisan issue…We all need to come together on this, on both sides of the aisle," he said, adding, "It is a vital part of the infrastructure we need in order to have a fully functional government."

It was only a matter of time before our deeply divided nation was going to start coming apart at the seams. Waves of anger, frustration, violence and civil unrest are starting to sweep across the United States, and political rallies for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have become a focal point for releasing some of that energy. The angry mob that threw rocks, bottles and burning T-shirts at police and Donald Trump supporters on Tuesday night wanted to get the attention of the national media, and they got it in droves. Now that the election is less than five months away, this kind of scene is going to be repeated over and over, and this is something that I warned about back in March. Millions upon millions of our young people have fully embraced the radical left, and they have already made it exceedingly clear that they are not afraid to use violence to advance their cause.

Never before in my lifetime have I seen America so divided. Our politicians and the mainstream media have been endlessly pitting various groups against one another for years, and wherever you look hearts are growing very cold.

I have said it before, and I will say it again. I believe that this is going to be the most chaotic election season that we have ever experienced, and the chaos and violence that are going to be unleashed over the next five months are going to shock the entire world.

On Tuesday night, the angry mob that gathered outside of the Albuquerque Convention Center didn’t seem to care who they hurt as they unleashed their anger. According to Fox News, some of the protesters even tried to set police horses on fire…

The rampaging gang was made up of anti-Trump goons — waving the Mexican flag and burning a Trump banner.

“Viva Mexico,” protesters shouted, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

The rioters even targeted police horses — knocking one down – and throwing burning T-shirts at others. Who tries to burn down a horse?

How sick and twisted do you have to be to try to set a horse on fire?

But this is what happens when a spirit of violence descends on a group of people. The consequences can quickly spiral out of control in unexpected ways.

Here is how CNS News described the chaotic scene outside of the Albuquerque Convention Center…

In one of the presidential campaign year’s more grisly spectacles, protesters in New Mexico opposing Donald Trump’s candidacy threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, injuring several, and toppled trash cans and barricades.

According to at least one report, rocks thrown by some of the rioters were actually flying through the convention center windows, and a number of innocent people got hurt.

What would make people act like that? This isn’t what America is supposed to look like. But when fundamental institutions such as the family and the church start to crumble, this is how people start to behave. You can see a clip that includes footage of protesters jumping on police cars last night in Albuquerque right here…

And of course the spirit of violence and civil unrest that is rising in America is not limited to Donald Trump rallies.

This past weekend in Chicago saw another five killed and 40 wounded in shootings, slightly down from Mother’s day weekend when eight people were killed and 42 wounded. The two weekends are indicative of what’s taking place in the homicide riddled city, in which the number of people shot so far this year is running an astonishing 50% above this time last year – what’s worse, summer is not even here yet, which is traditionally the city’s most violent period.

Yikes!

Other big cities are seeing similar spikes in violent crime. The following is an excerpt from a recent article in the New York Times…

Experts cannot agree on what to call a recent rise in homicides, much less its cause, but new data on Friday that showed a sharp spike in homicide rates in more than 20 cities rekindled debate over whether it was time for alarm.

The data showed particularly significant increases in homicides in six cities in the first three months of the year compared with the same period last year — Chicago, Dallas, Jacksonville, Fla., Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Memphis.

If this is happening now, with the stock market soaring and unemployment a bit lower than it was during the depths of the last recession, what is going to happen when things start getting really bad in this country?

Desperate people do desperate things, and if people are willing to hurl rocks and set horses on fire because they are upset at a political candidate, what are they going to do when there is no food for their families?

Just look at what is happening down in Venezuela. People are hunting down dogs and cats because they don’t have anything to eat. There have been at least 107 mass looting events so far in 2016 alone, and crime is completely and utterly out of control.

What is happening down there is eventually coming to America too, and the chaos and violence that we will see during the coming months will be a small preview of that.

The funny thing is that none of these political protests are going to matter anyway. It remains my contention that the elite will move heaven and earth to do whatever is necessary to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. They have already spent tens of millions of dollars against him and they have continuously had their media outlets put out “hit pieces” in an attempt to destroy him.

But their bag of tricks goes a lot deeper than that, and this is not a game to them.

I know that a lot of people out there have some very high hopes for Donald Trump, and we should be praying for him and for his family.

However, the time when the people determined the direction of this nation is long past, and the elite guard their monopoly over the political process very zealously.